Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1887-03-02
MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
Synopsis Of tho Proceedings Of tho Senate and
House.


Thursday was the last day for the pass
age OF bills and both houses were in ses-
sion until long after midnight.
In the Senate, the now election law
passed 20 to 3, The resolution exonerat-
ing Judge Cox was killed, also Scheffir's
graded high license bill.
The Daniels bill to amend the charter OF
the city OF st. Paul in regard to liquor
licenses was defeated in the senate by
vote OF Is to II.
The following bills were passed in the SEN
ate yesterday:
Requiring commission merchants to give
bonds; relating to roadways bridges, ETC.; re-
lating to guardians and wards; relating to no.
tary publics: regulating common carriers as
clerk at 81 200 year; relating to actions con-
corning rights to real property: appropratlng
$1,000 to the Mississippi river commission for
expenses for the year ending July l, 1889; to
prevent fraud In food products and to preserve
health; amending the laws relating to the regis
tertnG of deeds: creating the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth judicial districts, and appointing
judges for the same.
HOUSE FILES.
Il lating to public examiners deputy: appro-
pirate money for fiscal years 1S99-l8S9; appro-
pirate money for certain purposes: relief of hail
sufferers: regulating employment of convict
labor; distribute seed grain: relating to state
park; relating to changing names; legaliziug
certain Instruments; relating to notary publics;
p DIVIDING for preservation of corOners' records;
authorizing st. Paul to construct road; author
lie Des Moines to hold elections: compel en-
ployers to furnish seats; relating to ac
counts of executors. ETC.; giving first
lien for labor; relating to religious societies;
authorizing Hastings to issue bonds; relating to
notary public; relating to statute of frauds;
changes in independent school distric 8: adj
iustment of claims of w. H. Dixie; appropriate
ing money for teachers institutes; amend sec
ton 5, chapter IL, General Laws 1878; to vail
date certain acts of NJ. E. Church; amending
penal code: relating to sheriff of Stevens
county: relating to blind pigs: relating to
county treasurers: relating to Eleventh judicial
district: ofenses against property; to validate
certain deeds by married women; TO provide for
the formation of school districts: relating to
county surveyors; to provide for publication of
Minnesota reports; providing for incorporation
OF villages; TO abolish process OF garnishment;
for the relief of james Mccarthy; to
relieve settlers from paying certain taxes;
providing for the reimbursement of settlers on
indemnity lands; to prevent the use Of oleo-
margarine in boarding houses, etc, except where
notice Is given to guests: relating to the Broad
way bridge, st. Paul; relating to the remunera-
ton of the judge of the Fourth district: relating
to the legalizatIon of mortgages; providing for
two additional judges for the Twelfth judicial
district; TO reimburse S. P. Snider to the
amount Of $3.50 for expenses incurred in con-
testing his election: providing for the appoint
ment OF game warden: providing for park
commission for Minneapolis: apprOpriating
$4,000 for the Minnesota Forestry association,
in the cultivation Of forestry; relating to the
propagation Of trout in the various streams.
HOUSE.
In the House, Conrad Bohn who
wanted $4,000 for work on the
st. Peter Asylum was allowed to 60 into
the Nicollet county district court for adj
Indication.
The compromise grain shipment bill,
drawn by the grain and warehouse COM
mittee, an act to regulate the shipment OF
grain and to protect Minnesota state grain
grades, came up in the house, and was
passed by SO affirmative votes.
When the house opened yesterday morn
ing the number of bills for consideration was
as follows: General orders, 217; senate
bills, IS; calendar, 81; total, 376. Up to
midnight this total had been reduced l IS,
as follows: General orders, IS; house cal
endar, rs; senate, %.
SENATE BILLS PASSED.
Geological and natural history survey; collec
ton of vital statistics; regulating railroad COM
panles and increasing stock: taxing railroad
companies; issuing paid and unpaid stock rail-
road companies; regulating common carriers
and creating railroad and warehouse commits
sion: defining school holidays: amend section
30, chapter 20. General Statutes of 1878, relat-
ing to fishways; public school libraries; to fix
minimum age at which pupils may be admitted
TO public schools: chattel mortgages: state in
s1tut1ons; amending penal CODE relating to
Sunday closing of barber shops: bin for an
act to appropriate money for higher edu-
cationai purposes; providing for no.
tlces of redemption from tax sales.
HOUSE BILLS PASSED.
To discharge executors and administrators
and cancel their bonds: amending General Laws
1873 relating to executors and administrators;
to prevent accidents from fire on railway trains
and defining duties of railroad commissioners in
connection Herewith; logs and lumber: punish
ing drunkenness; powers of overseers: sale of
lands in Morrison county; to authorize the COM
mon council of st. Paul to issue bonds; prevent
double taxation of mortgages on lands; protec-
ton of streams and ponds of water: preventing
destruction Of fish in Spring brook, Mower
county; relating to township drainage: relating
to revision Of tax laws: granting eminent do
main to pneumatic tube lines; providing for
equal distribution Of cars for shippers: to pre-
vent fraud by guests of hotels and
boarding houses: relating to agricultural
societies; amending the penal code; to
reimburse employe of the state prison;